Salem Radio Network host Dennis Prager has been absent from his show after suffering a November fall that has hospitalized him. Those close to him are sharing more details about the injury and what his recovery looks like.
In a video published to the host’s YouTube channel, PragerU CEO Marissa Streit shared that Prager’s spinal cord had been injured when he fell at his home in November. The top of his spinal cord is where the injury took place, which also controls his diaphragm. She added that there was no injury to his brain, stating “Dennis, To this day, remains Dennis.”
Dennis Prager was hospitalized for several weeks with a strict focus on certain objectives.
“The goal was to get him to regain function of his breathing,” said Streit. “And we’ve some promising incremental improvements. He cannot move from the shoulders and below. He’s still working on physical therapy. We hope that with the reduction of the inflammation and time passing, as well as all the technology that all of the doctors are bringing to the family, we’ll continue to see improvement.”
Streit was joined by David Prager, the son of the Salem Radio Network host, added that his father is talking significantly better than he was in the immediate aftermath of the injury.
“He has one goal: to get back to all of us and to talk to the world again,” David Prager shared. “He’s talking a lot to the people in the rehab facility where he’s at right now. He’s all there, he’s 100% there. When you hear him on the radio, you’ll say ‘He hasn’t skipped a beat,’ that’s for sure. And, God willing, that will be very soon.”
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